Slander Quotes

• The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam

  Barack Obama

  Mind Blowing, Islam, Hussein

  "Obama U.N. Speech: A New Religion Doctrine" by Lauren Markoe, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.

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• When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

  Socrates

  Life, Words Of Wisdom, Tools

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• Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

  Samuel Johnson

  Revenge, Coward, Defense

  John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst, Joseph Warton (1793). “The Adventurer”, p.126

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• A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

  Publilius Syrus

  Mind, Tongue, Proof

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• To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.

  George Washington

  Deserving It, Evil, Gossip

  George Washington (1860). “Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter; and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Loosing: With illustrations”, p.76

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• Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

  Abraham Lincoln

  Truth, Honesty, Libel

  Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.

  Vanna Bonta

  Coward, Implementing

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• Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lying, Men, Occupation

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• In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

  George Bancroft

  Nine, Tongue, Disappointed

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• Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

  Socrates

  Hurt, Philosophical, Hurt Me

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• Slander is the tool of cowards.

  Vanna Bonta

  Coward, Tools

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• What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Doors, Judging, Guilty

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• The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

  Jonathan Swift

  People, Bird, Fruit

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• No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

  Moliere

  Attention, World, Safe

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• Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

  Plautus

  Ears, Way, Tongue

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• To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Thoughtful, Greatness, Men

  1849 Marginalia1844-49.

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• All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

  William Davenant

  Strong, Overcoming, Birth

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• Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.

  Bernard-Joseph Saurin

  Blow, Vices, Strikes

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• Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

  Immanuel Kant

  Life, Children, Truth

  "Gems of Thought" edited by Charles Northend, 1888.

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• Once you admit a lie or a slander into your ears, you can never totally rid yourself of its effects.

  Daniel Lapin

  Lying, Ears, Effects

  Rabbi Daniel Lapin (2009). “Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons

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• Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.

  Socrates

  Secret, Tales, Thee

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• Cut Men's throats with whisperings.

  Ben Jonson

  Cutting, Men, Whispering

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.797, Delphi Classics

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• Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

  Plato

  Plato, Speak, Mischief

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• Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.

  Ben Jonson

  Concern, Angry

  'Catiline his Conspiracy' (1611) act 3, sc. 1

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• The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

  Aeschylus

  Tongue, Stranger, Malice

  Aeschylus (1821). “The tragedies of Aeschylus”, p.88

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